Lines, squares, dots: Web app lets you print your own paper patterns
Depending on what you are doing, you may need lined paper for a list, or a dotted sheet for a sketch, or a stave for a piece of music.
If you are far away from the closest stationary shop, why not just print your own? Gridzzly.com is a free website designed for a single purpose: To grid A4 paper.
Users specify how and with what, then click print to receive a PDF for printing. It is also a perfect solution for printing paper that has already been printed on one side on the other, white side, so you can use it a second time.
Whether notes, sketches, diagrams or technical drawings, this tool likely has just the design you need. In addition to the usual lines and boxes, there are even triangular grids of dots (you may need to try it out to understand) and honeycomb hexagons.
The developer even thought of staves for composing music - and it is all free of charge.
You can use a slider to adjust not only the size and spacing of the structure and grid elements, but also their colour saturation on the paper. After all, one person may need discreet grey guidelines, while another needs clearly visible structures.
You can to change the unit of measurement from centimetres to inches. Just click on the big yellow ruler at the top of the page.
Gridzzly.com is an uncomplicated easy-to-use, extremely useful tool that - at some point or other - almost anyone could find helpful. Make a bookmark of this page in case you ever find you don't have the right template to hand or want to create a special booklet.
